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Living your dream and following your heart are possible for anyone willing to engage life with passion, according to Sinetar, an organizational psychologist, who has studied many people who have become successful doing what they love. Self-esteem, overcoming resistance, accepting and forgiving oneself, taking risks, and more are addressed in this visionary yet practical view of merging life and work.

Ce voyage au fin fond de la dépendance, cette invitation au gai acquiescement de soi emprunte deux versants. Sous la forme d'un traité, sont explorées les voies qui conduisent à la grande santé, au joyeux dire oui. En contrepoint, dans des fragments, une autre voix se donne à entendre. À la troisième personne, lointaine et pourtant si intime, l'auteur narre sa singulière quête de liberté en plein chaos. Chemin faisant, Alexandre Jollien nous livre un carnet de route, un véritable traité de déculpabilisation.

In the first of the two yoga sessions in this audiobook, Gillian guides you through gentle stretches and simple yoga postures with special emphasis on your breathing. The exercises are interspersed with meditative pauses and accompanied by soothing classical music. The second yoga session introduces you to a deep breathing technique and then takes you into a state of deep relaxation where, with the help of sounds from nature, you are guided into the experience of being different animals.

The three relaxation practices available here complement each other. Used in sequence, they are designed to gradually awaken the relaxation response in even the most anxious and highly stressed people. Using breath awareness techniques from the yogic tradition, visualisations of light, and with the help of soothing music, Gillian gently guides you into a deep connection with your body. You begin to experience yourself as a harmonious whole. This is a profoundly healing state of being.

Escape the chaos of the world by immersing yourself in the wisdom of best-selling lifestyle author Kate James, as she guides you back to composure and calm. With the pace of modern life it can often be difficult to pause, reflect and find composure. We all need a quiet, still space we can go to recalibrate and regain calm. This beautiful audiobook from best-selling lifestyle author Kate James is that quiet, still space. Practical, warm and soothingly accessible, Create Calm provides all the tools you need to cultivate a more peaceful and positive inner world.

Am I aware of the process of thinking? Can I see that thought is destructive, except where it is essential? Why is it that we don't see something immediately? Do you know when you are thinking? Is the thing that we call thinking thinking at all? Do you think from the background noise when a problem arises? When the mind becomes totally aware of the background, is there thinking when a problem arises? What happens when I am aware of this hum, this noise incessantly going on? Is the background noise different from the observer? How am I to live an everyday life with complete silence?

Living together amicably, creatively, in complete relationship with one another – if that is what is essential then we need not only a different kind of mind but also a different quality of affection, love. What is the function of a religious mind? Our struggle in life is dualistic: good and bad, right and wrong, holy and unholy, the ideal and the fact. There is only the fact, not the ideal. Is it possible to look at life as though you are looking for the first time? What is the content of the unconscious?

Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind.

Remember when you thought owning your own business was going to be fun and help you change the world? Then, somewhere along the line, your business became just hard work and wasn't fun at all. You're not alone, and it doesn't have to be that way. Alison Donaghey offers a way to reclaim your business by using a new way of thinking to improve your customer experience, staff contribution, and community involvement.

Dharma is our gradual awakening to the truth and the recognition of our unique path. Dharma is not something I chose; it chose me. These are some of my insights over 25 years of intensive study, practice, and teaching of yoga. Much of it centers on hatha yoga (postures and breath work) because that is the main practice in the West. Like other branches of yoga, it is a training of mind and heart so that we experience life with grace and equanimity. Insight arises from continual observation of the mind (citta).

On Sleep is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, included in the collection Parva Naturalia. The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology.

On Memory is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, included in the collection Parva Naturalia. The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology.

Jenseits des Lustprinzips gehört ohne Zweifel mit zu den originellsten, aber auch umstrittensten Schriften Sigmund Freuds. Mit ihr leitet Freud die Arbeiten seiner, wie er selbst sagt, letzten Jahre ein und lässt nun der sonst von ihm meist gezügelten Neigung zur Spekulation freien Lauf. Kern der vor allem von biologischen Überlegungen geleiteten Schrift ist die Annahme eines Todestriebs – eine Annahme, die in der Hypothese kulminiert, dass das Ziel allen Lebens der Tod, und zwar der spannungslose anorganische Zustand vor dem Leben sei.

The goal of this book is not merely a study of the past. It also raises questions about the goal of human life and its amazing creative potentialities. If these achievements of ancient or recent times were possible in the conditions of isolation and hostility by the surrounding world, what even greater achievements are possible in the future? Is there something in these geniuses’ lives and works that we can apply to our present dilemmas? It’s certainly worth taking a closer look at the greatest geniuses in all of history.

Notes on the Art of Life is Haim Shapira's version of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book–a discursive and intensely personal collection of thoughts on life; a tribute to the importance of the here and now; the value of the moment and of paying attention to it.

This light and entertaining book, spoken from a personal story, uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the astonishing influence of the 80/20 Rule, the mastery of solving the root cause of problems, or why failure is a myth), and delves into the way on forging a mind of clarity from the power of ideas. Doing the journey together. Providing actionable and achievable steps. Along the way, Gareth tells inspiring stories of uprisen artists, leading CEOs, and Nobel prize scientists who have persevered with powerful habits that led to gratitude, joy, and legacy.

While science has become politicized in recent years and people are saying, "I don't know what's true anymore," Gloria Prema's 2009 book unifying science and spirituality is more relevant than ever. It's All Light simply explains the theory that unites the forces of science along with the mysteries and common experiences of spirituality in a brilliant and illuminating book.

The howl of the bedside clock-radio carves through your dreams like a buzz-saw through butter, and you are awake. In another place. Never mind the bright yellow sunlight that flecks your pillow and warms your face. You are rudely awake, and resent it.

Drawing on his thirty years of teaching and service, Bo Lozoff shows why compassion—not success, self-improvement, or self-esteem—is at the root of happiness. Lozoff covers themes such as developing honesty, learning humility, dealing with anger, and honoring relationships. He shows how practices such as a daily vow of kindness or a simple commitment of time with others can have a profound effect on ourselves and our world.

Welcome to a journey through some of the most profound and captivating mysteries of our existence. In this narrative, we delve into three enigmatic realms that have puzzled thinkers, scientists, and dreamers for centuries: the cosmic shadows of dark matter and dark energy, the intricate enigma of consciousness, and the ancient, enduring puzzle of life's origins. This exploration is not just a scientific endeavor; it is a voyage into the essence of curiosity and wonder.